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16 senses' reversal of the Science of Soul was practically exposed by the demonstrations of Jesus, nineteen hundred years ago; yet this so-called sense still makes mortal mind tributary to mortal body, and ordains certain sections of matter, such as brain and nerves, as the seats of pain and pleasure, whence matter reports, to this mind, its status of happiness or misery.

The optical focus is another proof of the illusion of material sense. On the eye's retina, sky and tree-tops

apparently join hands, clouds and ocean meet and mingle. The barometer, that little prophet of storm and sunshine, — denying the testimony of the senses, — points to fair weather, in the midst of murky clouds and drenching rain. Experience is full of instances of similar illusions, which every thinker may recall for himself.

To material sense, the severance of the jugular vein takes away life; but to spiritual sense, and in Science, Life goes on unchanged, and Being is eternal. Temporal life is a false sense of existence.

Our theories make the same mistake regarding Soul and body that Ptolemy made as to the solar system.

They insist that soul is in body, and mind therefore tributary to matter. Science has destroyed the false theory as to the relations of the celestial bodies; and Science also will destroy the greater error as to our terrestrial bodies. The true idea and Principle of man will then appear. The Ptolemaic blunder could not affect the harmony of Being, as much as the error relating to soul and body, — which reverses the order of Science, and assigns to matter